{"id":1997830,"date":"2023-08-11T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:21:59","slug":"im-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Lil Tay denies death rumors, blames hackers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Reports of Lil Tay\u2019s Death Were \u2063Greatly Exaggerated<\/h2>\n<p>The \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/\" title=\"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post\">social media influencer<\/a>, Lil Tay, has put \u2063an \u200cend to the rumors of her death.\u200d In a statement released on Thursday, she assured her followers that she and \u200cher \u200bbrother\u2064 are safe \u2062and alive. This comes after news reports circulated \u2064claiming that the\u2062 14-year-old \u200dand her \u2062brother had \u2063passed away. It turns out that her Instagram account\u2063 was hacked, leading to the spread of false information.<\/p>\n<p>In her statement, Lil \u2064Tay expressed her heartbreak and the trauma she experienced over the past \u200b24 hours. She \u200breceived countless heartbreaking phone \u2064calls \u200bfrom loved\u200b ones while trying \u2063to sort out the mess. The hacker \u2063used her \u200dcompromised account \u2064to spread misinformation and rumors, even getting her name\u200c wrong. She clarified that her legal name is\u2063 Tay \u200cTian, not &#8216;Claire Hope&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The original announcement on Instagram, which falsely claimed her \u2062death, has been taken \u2063down. It stated that her brother, Jason Tian, had also passed away,\u200c but provided no \u200cdetails.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt \u200bis with a heavy heart that we \u2064share the devastating\u2063 news\u200c of our beloved \u2064Claire\u2019s sudden and tragic passing,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no words to express the\u200c unbearable \u200dloss \u200dand indescribable pain. This \u2064outcome was entirely unexpected and has left us all in shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, doubts about the authenticity of \u2062the death report were raised by some sources, including Lil Tay&#8217;s former manager, Henry Tsang.<\/p>\n<p>While Lil Tay \u2062has millions of followers on \u200bInstagram, her status as \u200ban &#8220;influencer&#8221; is up for debate. \u2062According to her Wikipedia \u200cpage, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fitness-guru-liver-king-comes-clean-about-steroid-use-i-lied-and-i-misled-a-lot-of-people\/\" title=\"Fitness Guru \u2018Liver King\u2019 Comes Clean About Steroid Use: \u2018I Lied And I Misled A Lot Of People\u2019\">gained fame online<\/a> for\u2064 a brief period in 2018, claiming to be the &#8220;youngest flexer of the century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\"><p>\n<!-- Instagram embed code -->\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to\u200c Page Six, Lil \u2064Tay \u2062had not been\u2062 active \u2063on Instagram since June 2018, around\u2062 the time she was involved in a custody battle between her\u200d parents. The Canadian \u2064Broadcasting Corp. profiled her in 2018, describing her as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-alive-says-influencer-lil-tay-who-claims-alarming-false-death-announcement-came-from-hackers\/\" title=\"Influencer Lil Tay denies death rumors, blames hackers.\">foul-mouthed social media child\u200c star<\/a> who claimed to be a nine-year-old \u200crapper living a \u200dluxurious life in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy surrounding her, \u2064Lil Tay&#8217;s death rumor may have been a manufactured attempt to regain\u200b attention. Some social media \u2062users\u2063 speculated that \u2063it\u2063 was a\u2064 publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So Lil Tay is saying her social media was \u200chacked and she is in fact\u200b not dead.<br \/>\nI\u2019m\u200d thinking it\u2019s \u200da \u2062publicity stunt \u2062because i didn\u2019t \u2062know who \u2064she was before this and i kinda wish i still didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwSkxkgZ2Q\">pic.twitter.com\/LwSkxkgZ2Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 V (@littlemykonos) \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/littlemykonos\/status\/1689776317745844229?\">August\u200c 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement denying her death did little to ease concerns about Lil Tay&#8217;s well-being, considering the previous reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwins-daughter-ireland-recalls-him-calling-her-a-thoughtless-little-pig-when-she-was-11\/\" title=\"Alec Baldwin\u2019s Daughter Ireland Recalls Him Calling Her A \u2018Thoughtless Little Pig\u2019 When She Was 11\">bitter custody battle<\/a> and rumors of \u2064abuse and exploitation\u200c by family\u2063 members.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone reported that\u2063 the death announcement coincided with the \u200claunch of a crypto project in Lil Tay&#8217;s name, led by her manager, Harry Tsang.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured,\u2062 Lil Tay \u200cis alive and well, putting an end to\u200b the \u200dalarming false death announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Tay&#8217;s alleged death was a huge exaggeration. The young influencer clarified on Thursday that she was perfectly fine, refuting news reports that claimed she and her brother had passed away. TMZ revealed that a hacker was responsible for spreading the false information. &#8220;I&#8217;m alive,&#8221; Lil Tay stated in her announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":1997831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}